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title: "Michael Bublé, My Santa Buddy"

meaning: "A holiday prayer to the hibernating crooner: loop the Christmas playlist forever, keep him out of the cave, and ask for nothing more than a platonic Santa Buddy who sings Fanny Bright twice."

year: 2023
release: "Michael Bublé, My Santa Buddy"
releaseType: "single"

artist: "Scoobert Doobert"
artistId: "#scoobert"

credits: "Written, performed, and mixed by Luke Francis Walton."

apple: "https://music.apple.com/us/album/michael-bubl%C3%A9-my-santa-buddy/1710592001?i=1710592002"
spotify: "https://open.spotify.com/track/6pzdUv15Llpd4MD4nkmPBH"

themes: ["christmas", "parody", "canada"]

isrc: QZTB52376725
isrcSource: soundexchange
lyrics: |
  Michael Bublé is coming out his cave again
  It's time to sing a song of winter
  For the children kept inside
  Oh Michael, sing it nice
  And play it for me twice
  I wanna hear your Santa Buddy song
  He seems like a cool dude
  A hockey lover too
  Oh Canada is proud to let him free
  Again tonight

  Michael Bublé is coming out to play again
  Defrosting by the fireside
  And shaking off the rust
  A holiday for us
  But sing each day he must
  I wanna watch you dance in Vegas
  Like a carnival delight
  And late into the night
  Oh Michael won't you play for all of us for life?

  Sing us a song of Fanny Bright and Parson Brown
  Tell us of the silent night as Christmas comes around
  Sing us a song of Frosty and his corncob pipe
  Was CBD inside it as Frosty melted in the summer sun?
  Oh no, is Michael done?
  Let's loop the playlist
  Sing it all again tonight

  Michael Bublé is coming out his cave again
  It's time to sing a song of winter
  For the children kept inside
  Oh Michael, sing it nice
  And play it for me twice
  I wanna hear your Santa Buddy song
  He seems like a cool dude
  Now I believe in you
  Oh Canada is proud to let him free
  For Christmas time

  Yeah, Michael won't you be my friend?
  A lovely holiday to spend
  Inside our little wonderland
  So Michael Bublé, Santa Buddy,
  Platonic Christmas friend
  Won't you make our day
  And play for all of us
  Again tonight

  Tonight tonight tonight
  Bu-bu-bu-Bublé
  Bu-Bublé
  Bu-bu-bu-Bublé, Santa friend

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A Scoobert Christmas deep cut (2023): [**"Michael Bublé, My Santa Buddy"**](/songs/michael-buble-my-santa-buddy/) (original song, not a Bublé cover), also on [*A Very Doobert Christmas, Vol. 1*](/albums/a-very-doobert-christmas-vol-1/). Not part of the [*US*](/albums/us/) chapter cycle; it's seasonal standalone absurdism.

The joke is affection without irony poisoning it: Michael Bublé as a Canadian hibernating creature who must emerge each winter to sing for the children kept inside, hockey bro, Vegas carnival energy, platonic Santa Buddy. The middle verse runs the holiday songbook (Fanny Bright, silent night, Frosty), asks whether Frosty's corncob pipe had CBD in it, then panics that Michael might be *done*, leaving only one theology: **loop the playlist**.

The ending lands on wonderland domesticity: won't you be my friend, make our day, play again tonight. Bu-bu-bu-Bublé as mantra. It's parody that still wants the warmth.

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